Online supermarket wow
Wow, Nicola's just told me she's trying mysupermarket.co.uk.. It seems to pull the data off four supermarkets (tesco, asda, sainsburys, and occado), and provides a completely alternative interface ont…
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New photos
Some new photos uploaded: \ From Chinese new Year on portobello beach last Thursday. Much Poi drunken fire excitement! \ A couple from wandering round Edinburgh now it is warm enough to venture out ta…
New Year
Well, New Year seemed to go pretty well: we went round to Dave/Helen+Diego's as usual, and caught up with them, as well as Iain,Naiad,Alex and Marianne. Both David, Diego and Helene seemed to enjoy ou…
Wii console finally hacked!
Cooooool!! Some guys have a video of it here. In summary: - Boot Wii in Gamecube mode (which only allows access to certain areas of memory/ GC compatable hardware). However, you can still run custom G…
Linux Ricoh XD support
... is coming along nicely! I've disassembled about 75% of the driver now, and can talk to XD cards and receive the expected responses. The hardware interface is slightly more complex than the simple…
Abrasive waterjet machining
As I currently can't sleep AGAIN due to reading too many interesting things AGAIN and then thinking too much, here is ANOTHER interesting thing. Soon no one will sleep! :) A friend sent me this page a…
Ricoh media reader under linux
Oh dear, oh dear, looks like I'm finally back to reverse engineering things again. The media reader in my new laptop supports MMC/SD/MemoryStick/XD cards. However under linux, only SD cards are suppor…
Column oriented DBMS
I've been investigating Column Oriented DBMS systems today. These are designed for data warehousing applications (as opposed to transactional processing). They use a data storage mechanism which is or…
gadgetgadgetgadgetgadget
Behold my latest gadget: . It is a Squeezebox, a thin client music playback system; music is streamed from my flat server running the squeezebox daemon (which is opensource and available on many platf…
Bluetooth sniffing
I'm finally starting to feel like low level hardware things again at long last. Following the vague instructions here I now have a functional bluetooth sniffer for free! I'm not sure quite what to do…